I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.